Logomaquia (2009) for Trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion & tape
TExt by Nora Iuga. Premiered by KNM. Nov 2009, Buenos Aires.

English translation of the text:
“Ow, it hurts,” said my mouth when I opened my eyes.
 
 
I can’t explain why, but the more our dreams are voided of images and, above all, of events, they begin to reveal to us texts… whether we see them written, or whether we awake saying them out loud; sometimes old words come, sounds soldered by people of old, word-roots from which meanings have sprung – thence, too, utterances – you awake with a phrase from Zarathustra written in Gothic script, a phrase you long ago forgot and which has suddenly come to light just as lava carries to the surface pieces of old rock – I am writing composedly, ordinarily, but this time a sense cried: “Ow, it hurts!” I didn’t open my eyes, beneath my eyelids there was still the remainder of an image, it was unravelling ever more, it was forcing me to gather up the pieces and they stuck together crookedly, they were superimposed, I couldn’t manage to put them back together, they were like tectonic plates always sliding one on top of the other and not for a moment would they stop so that I could fasten them into a static scene. A thick finger with a long fingernail in my white linen panties pressing me hard at the spot from which I pee… when was it?


Logomaquia

el frío inverso es una obra encargada y estrenada en 2021 para Resonar: Encuentro entre compositores e intérpretes, radicado en cheLA (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires).

Voz: Julia Sanjurjo
Piano: Fernanda González
Texto y música: Horace Bravo

el frío inverso(2020)

las puntas de los dedos tiritan
destino más puro si habrá:
la puerta se cierra de golpe
el espacio se dilata, infernal...

el verso me agarra del cuello
necesita que conozca el suelo, y voy
la primera palabra es confusa
el frenetismo me aísla
la miel del hartazgo, bebí.

se satura el tiempo
se satura de poema, el tiempo
el mundo, es decir, mi mente
saciedad del verso dominante
mi ternura cansada tras la página llena...
un final agridulce que recae.

el frío inverso(para voz y piano, 2021)

"white wide eyes" (2014) for 23 musicians (4 ensembles), electronics, projection
- Ensemblekollektiv Berlin (Ensemble Mosaik, Sonar Quartet, Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Apparat)
- Manuel Nawri (conductor)
premiere January 22nd 2015, Festival Ultraschall Berlin, HAU2

live recording: dradio

"white wide eyes" 2014 - for 23 musicians, electronics, projection

"La sombra de la sombra de un objeto aún no encontrado" (The shadow of the shadow of an object not yet found) for prepared string quartet + electronics

There is—somewhere—an object yet to be found by me. I do not know what it is or how it looks (sounds) like but I know I will recognize it on the moment of our encounter. Such object would allow me to experiment with my music free from a heavy historical burden of aesthetic imposition and arbitrary hierarchization. I presume that a long time will go by before I find this object, if I ever do. In the meantime, I will try to find its shadow—or, if not, the shadow of its shadow. 
--
He de encontrar, en algún lugar, un objeto. Desconozco cómo se ve (o se escucha) tal objeto pero sé que lo reconoceré al momento en que lo encuentre. Tal objeto me permitirá experimentar con mi música, libre de la pesada carga histórica de imposición estética y jerarquización arbitraria con la que cargo (cargamos). Anticipo que el encontrar tal objeto me tomará mucho tiempo—si es que algún día lo logro hacerlo. Mientras tanto, intentaré encontrar su sombra. O, por lo menos, la sombra de su sombra.

Performed by Spektral Quartet at Galvin Hall (Northwestern University) in February, 2017.

Photo by Ana María Bermúdez (https://www.anamariabermudez.com/).

La sombra de la sombra de un objeto aún no encontrado (2017, live recording)— Spektral Quartet

paw-marks in wet cement (2015–17), for piano, two percussionists, and amplified ensemble.
Performed by Wilhem Latchoumia, and the EOC conducted by Daniel Kawka.

Clara Iannotta : paw-marks in wet cement (2015–17), for piano, 2 perc, and ensemble

studio version of y o k o b i t 
first performed live by International Contemporary Ensemble @ Walt Disney Hall, LA, 1st June 2019. Commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic

y o k o b i t

Interpretación: Ensamble GEAM

Guadalupe Planes: Flauta
Estefanía Schanton: Saxo 
Andrés Liendro: Violín 
Bruno D´Ambrosio: Violonchelo 
Max Bertea: Piano 
Ezequiel Menalled: Dirección musical

Seis Piezas Breves (2019) - Para ensamble

Lecturas en el marco "Residencias 2", organizadas por el ensamble Tropi en el CETC.

Dirección musical : Haydée Schvartz
Flauta: Sebastián Tellado
Clarinete: Constancia Moroni
Violín: Florencia Ciaffone
Violonchelo: Alejandro Becerra
Guitarra: Manuel Moreno
Percusión: Juan Denari
Piano: Malena Levin

Máster: Agustín Avila en Aromito Estudio
4 de Junio de 2019

Aerides [2019] - Ensamble Tropi

This is a musical gadget.  It's candy for the ear. A product of the accumulation of ephemere sound objects. It is as well a subproduct of mainstream aesthetics.

commissioned by Colon Theater Experimentation Center (CETC) 
premiered on June 8th 2019 

Ensemble Tropi 
Artistic Direction: Haydée Schvartz 

Flute/Picc/Harmonica: Sebastián Tellado 
Clarinet Bb/Bass + accesories: Constancia Moroni 
E-guitar (prep): Manuel Moreno
Piano(prep)/Keyboard: Malena Levin 
Percussion/Sampler: Juan Denari
Violin: Florencia Ciaffone 
Cello: Alejandro Becerra

recorded at cheLA (Bs.As.) by Ariel Passadore 
mixed at concepto sonorus (Bs.As.) by Jorge Chikiar 
master at Ircam - Centre Pompidou - París

The Ultimate Distraction

The Ultimate Distraction - ensemble + sampler

"piano, piano, piano, piano" (2021)
 Stereo Tape
Revue ECCO-#2 Plat/Piano/Flat

Aerides [2019] - Ensamble Tropi

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